Comment 23 for bug 19873

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Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 12:08:45 +0200
From: Josselin Mouette <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>, Blars Blarson <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#319162: NMU patch

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Le samedi 03 septembre 2005 =E0 00:46 -0700, Blars Blarson a =E9crit :
> > Oh, great. Do you know that, when a package is co-maintained by
> > twenty-four people and a bug isn't fixed, there may be some reasons
> > behind?
>=20
> If there was a reason for this easy to fix RC bug not being fixed, you
> should have sent it to the bug.

You're right here. The explanation wasn't sent to all such bug reports
and this was wrong.

> You'll need to explain why gnome-games needs -Wl,--as-needed and
> shouldn't be included in etch without it before I'll consider my NMU
> as incorrect. (but correct as far as I knew when I made it.)

Your NMU is highly aggressive. When there are more than twenty
maintainers, with about half of them being very responsive, you should
at least *talk* before uploading. I don't remember seeing you on
#gnome-debian nor on any GNOME-related mailing list.

There a reason why GNOME packages are team-maintained; it is precisely
to avoid anarchic and contradictory technical decisions, and to avoid
the need for NMUs.

> > This pseudo-fix won't help anything. Couldn't you help fixing some
> > unmaintained packages causing this kind of issues, like binutils,
> > instead?
>=20
> binutils doesn't have any easy to fix RC bugs that have been sitting
> with no action for weeks. (or any other RC bugs)

Without arguing endlessly about binutils, I think a NMU for one of the
26 RC bugs on QA packages would have been much appreciated.
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